Brevoort Remembers 10 Years Ago

I’m one of the relatively few editors in
the industry who can do this sort of thing, so welcome to a new feature
here at the Blog, one that will in all likelihood become a recurring
thing. So let’s set the Way-Back machine and see what was coming out
from my editorial office TEN YEARS AGO!

(excerpt)

And a decade ago, I was still editing AVENGERS, that series still in
its first year back from the Heroes Reborn experiment. The creative
team was Kurt Busiek and George Perez, and we really had a lot of fun
working on this title. This particular issue, though, wasn’t one of our
strongest—when he took over the book, Kurt sat down and mapped out the
first year, which included a crossover with THUNDERBOLTS at the end of
it. But once we got into producing the stories, we’d occasionally find
ourselves tight for space, and because that crossover couldn’t be moved
(as it was also related to an AVENGERS/THUNDERBOLTS novel release) that
meant we couldn’t do what we’d typically do, and turn a two-part story
into a three-parter if it needed the room. This issue really suffered
for the lack of space—we just didn’t have enough pages to get
everything accomplished that we needed to.